Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 8:38:
- Uma: “From there he stopped his cart, and they got down [and] went into the water, and Filipus baptized him.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “Then the official told his men to stop the kalesa. Both of them went down into the water and he was baptized by Pilip.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And he caused the cart to stop, and the two got down, Philip and the official, and they came here to the water and Philip baptized him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Then he stopped the calesa they were riding in, and the two of them climbed-down to go step-into the water. Then Felipe baptized him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “Well, when he had said that, he caused the vehicle to stop. They both got down and then waded into the water for he was then baptized by Felipe.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 7:26:
- Uma: “In that village, there also was a woman, her daughter was possessed. When the woman heard that Yesus had arrived in the village, she came kneeling in front of him requesting-help, she said: ‘Expel for me the demon that has possessed my child!’ Yet that woman, she was not a Yahudi person, she was a Fenisia person from the land of Siria.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “That woman was not a Yahudi but of the tribe Penisiya, from the country Siriya. Na, so-then she begged Isa asking him to cause the demon to come out of her daughter.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “She begged Jesus to cure her child who was afflicted with a demon. Now that woman was not a Jew; she was a Phoenician from the province of Syria. She spoke Greek.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “and entreated that he cause-to-leave the evil-spirit that had possessed her child. This woman was born in Fenisia a region of Syria and Greek was her language.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “As for that woman, she was not a Judio. Where she had been born was there in Sirofenicia. She was asking help from Jesus that the evil spirit would be driven out which was possessing that child of hers.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 1:8:
- Uma: “Yet to his Child, God says to him like this: ‘O God, you are King forever, you rule justly [lit., straight-straight].” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “But about his Son this is what God said. He said, ‘You are God, and your rule has no end. Your rule is straight/righteous towards your people.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “But what He said to His son was: ‘You are God and there is no end to Your rule. Your controlling Your kingdom is righteous.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “But what he says concerning his Child is, ‘You (sing.) God, you (sing.) will rule forever. The way you (sing.) rule moreover is righteous.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But to this Son of his he said, ‘You (sing.), God, are the one who will reign without ending. You (sing.) will reign in which wholly good justice/straightness is what you will set in motion.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “God said to his Son: ‘You are God, and you will rule forever. When you rule, you will do all that is good.” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
For the Old Testament quote, see Psalm 45:6 – Psalm 45:7.
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 9:30:
- Uma: “So, when his one-faith relatives knew that there were those who wanted to kill him, they accompanied him to the village of Kaisarea. From Kaisarea, they sent him off to the village of Tarsus.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “When his fellow-disciples of Isa knew about this, they accompanied Saul going down to Kesarea and they told him to leave for Tarsus.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And when this was known to his companion believers, they took Saul there to the village of Caesarea and there they sent him on a boat going to the village of Tarsus.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When however his fellow believers found-out, they went and escorted him to Cesarea, then they sent-him-off to go to Tarsus.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “But, when his siblings in believing knew that (some people) were intending to do like that to him, they escorted Saulo as far as Cesarea. When they arrived there, they caused him to sail so that he could go home to Tarso.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 8:21:
- Uma: “He said further: ‘Yet do you still not comprehend?'” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “‘Na,’ he said, ‘and you still don’t understand?'” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Jesus said to them, ‘Perhaps you now understand that it is not bread that we have to worry about.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “‘And do you still not understand what I mean to say?’ said Jesus.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “‘Well, why can’t you yet understand?’ said Jesus again/next. ‘It wasn’t food which I was alluding to in this warning of mine.'” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
Following are a number of back-translations of Hebrews 3:8:
- Uma: “don’t harden your hearts like your grandparents long ago, whom the prophet Musa brought out of the land of Mesir. Your grandparents long ago repudiated/rejected God and tested/tempted him in the uninhabited prairie, to see how patient he was.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “don’t harden your liver like your ancestors of old (who) did not want to follow/obey God. In those times there in the lonely country they tested God if he could do (something) to/for them.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “it’s necessary that your breaths be not hard (it’s necessary that you be not stubborn) like your breaths were long ago when you resisted God at the time when you tested His endurance of you there in the land where no people live.'” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “don’t harden your minds like the way your ancestors did who opposed God when they were walking through the place with no inhabitants.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “hopefully don’t harden your heads like your ancestors did in that they opposed and tested him in that wilderness place (lit.place where-one-could-starve).” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Tenango Otomi: “Do not reject the word God speaks now. Do not do like the old-time people did in the desert when they rejected what God said, keeping on until they caused God to be angry.'” (Source: Tenango Otomi Back Translation)
For the Old Testament quote, see Psalm 95:7 – Psalm 95:11.
Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 10:19:
- Uma: “While Petrus was still thinking, the Holy Spirit said to him like this: ‘Listen! there are three people here looking for you (sing.).” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “During that time Petros was still there thinking as to what the meaning was of what he had seen. Then God’s Spirit said to him, ‘Listen. There are three men there looking for you.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “And Peter, at that time, was still thinking about what was to be understood by what he had seen, and then the Holy Spirit said to him, ‘There are three men looking for you.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “Pedro, he was still continuing-to-think-about the significance of what God had shown him, so the Spirit of God said to him, ‘There are three people looking-for you (sing.).” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “As for Pedro, he was still trying-to-understand what had been shown to him. The Espiritu Santo said to him, ‘Pedro, listen well. There are three people looking for you.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Lalana Chinantec: “As Peter was meditating what he had dreamed about, the Great Spirit spoke to Peter: ‘Three Gentiles who are looking for you have arrived at your house.'” (Source: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
Following are a number of back-translations of Mark 9:15:
- Uma: “The many people saw, there was Yesus coming. As soon as they saw him, they were amazed / startled. Off they ran to meet him.” (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: “So-then when the crowds saw Isa, they were-astonished/wondered because they had not expected that Isa would go there. They ran to greet him.” (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: “When the people saw that Jesus had come, they were very much amazed because not expecting Jesus and they quickly went up to meet him.” (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: “When the many-people saw Jesus, they were very surprised, and they ran to where he was and greeted him.” (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: “It’s like the people were startled when they saw Jesus. They ran to meet him and give-greeting.” (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
